Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307431797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. In tales of Cossack marauders and flashy Odessa gangsters, he perfectly captured the raw, edgy mood of the first years of the Russian Revolution. Masked, reckless, impassioned, charismatic, Babel himself was as fascinating as the characters he created. At last, in renowned author Jerome Charyn, Babel has a portraitist worthy of his quicksilver genius. Though it traces the arc of Babel’s charmed life and mysterious death, Savage Shorthand bursts the confines of straight biography to become a meditation on the pleasures, torments, and meanings of Babel’s art. Even in childhood, Babel seemed destined to leave a mark. But it was only when his mentor, Maxim Gorky, ordered him to go out into the world of revolutionary Russia that Babel found his true voice and subject. His tales of the bandit king Benya Krik and the brutal raids of the Red Cavalry electrified Moscow. Overnight, Babel was a celebrity, with throngs of admirers and a train of lovers. But with the rise of Stalin, Babel became a living ghost. Charyn brilliantly evokes the paranoid shadowland of the first wave of Stalin’s terror, when agents of the Cheka snuffed out artists like candle flames. Charyn’s chilling account of the circumstances of Babel’s death–hidden and lied about for decades by Stalin’s agents–finally sets the record straight. For Jerome Charyn, Babel is the writer who epitomizes the vibrancy, violence, and tragedy of literature in the twentieth century. In Savage Shorthand, Charyn has turned his own lifelong obsession with Babel into a dazzling and original literary work.
Savage Shorthand
Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307431797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. In tales of Cossack marauders and flashy Odessa gangsters, he perfectly captured the raw, edgy mood of the first years of the Russian Revolution. Masked, reckless, impassioned, charismatic, Babel himself was as fascinating as the characters he created. At last, in renowned author Jerome Charyn, Babel has a portraitist worthy of his quicksilver genius. Though it traces the arc of Babel’s charmed life and mysterious death, Savage Shorthand bursts the confines of straight biography to become a meditation on the pleasures, torments, and meanings of Babel’s art. Even in childhood, Babel seemed destined to leave a mark. But it was only when his mentor, Maxim Gorky, ordered him to go out into the world of revolutionary Russia that Babel found his true voice and subject. His tales of the bandit king Benya Krik and the brutal raids of the Red Cavalry electrified Moscow. Overnight, Babel was a celebrity, with throngs of admirers and a train of lovers. But with the rise of Stalin, Babel became a living ghost. Charyn brilliantly evokes the paranoid shadowland of the first wave of Stalin’s terror, when agents of the Cheka snuffed out artists like candle flames. Charyn’s chilling account of the circumstances of Babel’s death–hidden and lied about for decades by Stalin’s agents–finally sets the record straight. For Jerome Charyn, Babel is the writer who epitomizes the vibrancy, violence, and tragedy of literature in the twentieth century. In Savage Shorthand, Charyn has turned his own lifelong obsession with Babel into a dazzling and original literary work.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0307431797
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Hailed as the first great Soviet writer, Isaac Babel was at once a product and a victim of violent revolution. In tales of Cossack marauders and flashy Odessa gangsters, he perfectly captured the raw, edgy mood of the first years of the Russian Revolution. Masked, reckless, impassioned, charismatic, Babel himself was as fascinating as the characters he created. At last, in renowned author Jerome Charyn, Babel has a portraitist worthy of his quicksilver genius. Though it traces the arc of Babel’s charmed life and mysterious death, Savage Shorthand bursts the confines of straight biography to become a meditation on the pleasures, torments, and meanings of Babel’s art. Even in childhood, Babel seemed destined to leave a mark. But it was only when his mentor, Maxim Gorky, ordered him to go out into the world of revolutionary Russia that Babel found his true voice and subject. His tales of the bandit king Benya Krik and the brutal raids of the Red Cavalry electrified Moscow. Overnight, Babel was a celebrity, with throngs of admirers and a train of lovers. But with the rise of Stalin, Babel became a living ghost. Charyn brilliantly evokes the paranoid shadowland of the first wave of Stalin’s terror, when agents of the Cheka snuffed out artists like candle flames. Charyn’s chilling account of the circumstances of Babel’s death–hidden and lied about for decades by Stalin’s agents–finally sets the record straight. For Jerome Charyn, Babel is the writer who epitomizes the vibrancy, violence, and tragedy of literature in the twentieth century. In Savage Shorthand, Charyn has turned his own lifelong obsession with Babel into a dazzling and original literary work.
Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education
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Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Languages : en
Pages : 1048
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Fame and Failure 1720-1800
Author: Adam Rounce
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame and failure through writers who failed to achieve it.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042224
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
An unusual history of eighteenth-century British literature, exploring ideas of fame and failure through writers who failed to achieve it.
New York Sketchbook
Author: Jerome Charyn
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312353693
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
In time for the holidays comes this innovative exploration of America's biggest, and most exciting metropolis. In sketch and water color, Fabrice Moireau captures the dizzying heights, steep canyons and teeming multitudes of the Big Apple.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312353693
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
In time for the holidays comes this innovative exploration of America's biggest, and most exciting metropolis. In sketch and water color, Fabrice Moireau captures the dizzying heights, steep canyons and teeming multitudes of the Big Apple.
Encyclopedia of Jewish-American Literature
Author: Gloria L. Cronin
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140614
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
Presents a reference on Jewish American literature providing profiles of Jewish American writers and their works.
Publisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140614
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1294
Book Description
Presents a reference on Jewish American literature providing profiles of Jewish American writers and their works.
L'épuisement du biographique?
Author: Vincent Broqua
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443826294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Pourquoi penser le biographique? N'est-il pas épuisé? Le siècle passé semble l'avoir vidé de son contenu et de sa substance et l'a réduit à un état d'affaiblissement presque complet dans le domaine des sciences sociales comme dans celui de la critique littéraire. L'enjeu de cet ouvrage est d'affirmer que le biographique déborde la biographie et de considérer le biographique comme une condition du retour de la biographie au moyen de son dépassement. Cet ouvrage rassemble des travaux abordant ...
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443826294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Pourquoi penser le biographique? N'est-il pas épuisé? Le siècle passé semble l'avoir vidé de son contenu et de sa substance et l'a réduit à un état d'affaiblissement presque complet dans le domaine des sciences sociales comme dans celui de la critique littéraire. L'enjeu de cet ouvrage est d'affirmer que le biographique déborde la biographie et de considérer le biographique comme une condition du retour de la biographie au moyen de son dépassement. Cet ouvrage rassemble des travaux abordant ...
The London Gazette
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Association Monthly
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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The Gregg Writer
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Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Languages : en
Pages : 770
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Journal of the Society of Arts
Author: Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain)
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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Category : Industrial arts
Languages : en
Pages : 998
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